He is asking people to have IFHE, if they are using the Harekaze, (especially if they are using the Akizuki guns on it), and was showing the damage difference between the 2 in the pictures, 1 with, 1 without.

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Sorry for the question but, what is IFHE? Some type of special fuse or something like this?

Inertia Fuse for High Explosive (IFHE) is a 4 point captain skill that increases the penetration of your HE rounds at the expense of your chance to start fires. You gain 30% penetration for a slight reduction (one percent in this case) in your chance to start a fire.

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Since you brought it up, my Harekaze captain is one point shy of being able to get IFHE. What's the reasoning behind getting it (and spending points I could use elsewhere) verses just switching to AP?

I use the B hull like most folks. I'm not a DD driver for the most part, so don't really know how underaged botes optimize.

The HE is very anemic, and you'll get a ton of shatters if you don't have IFHE. I used my Akizuki cpt in my Harekaze and he worked great. Use IFHE when there is any sort of angle between you and the target, if they are broadside spam AP.

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Since you brought it up, my Harekaze captain is one point shy of being able to get IFHE. What's the reasoning behind getting it (and spending points I could use elsewhere) verses just switching to AP?

I use the B hull like most folks. I'm not a DD driver for the most part, so don't really know how underaged botes optimize.

The B Hull HE without ifhe cannot pen most same or higher tier dd hulls. This means you will do very little damage to them if you are close due to angling and AP. Adding ifhe allows you to pen their hulls meaning you can damage a dd angled to you. Otherwise you’ll end up like in the pictures. Without ifhe you’re better off using the US gun hull. I think it’s C

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So now you tell me this after the free captain resets are over.... Hahahahahahahahahaha.. Gee thanks... not (lol)

What I discovered that's even more important to the survival to a DD is the VIGILANCE captain skill.

About every 3-4 battles, I end up boosting into a spread of torps - and the closing speed is so fast there's little time to react...

They are moving 65 knots, I'm going into them at 40 knots.. On our whacky map scale, that's about 2KM/second.

WHAM -- half my health gone.

I also make a lot of blind torpedo hits this way.

Haven't hit one like that that since I switched over to that 3 point captain skill on all my DDs. Now it gives me 1.5 seconds to react instead of 1 second.

After you run DD's enough, especially in high tiers, you'll develop a sixth sense on when to expect them. It's not a bad skill to take, but there are so many valuable 3 point skills that it's hard to justify the cost.

After you run DD's enough, especially in high tiers, you'll develop a sixth sense on when to expect them. It's not a bad skill to take, but there are so many valuable 3 point skills that it's hard to justify the cost.

Not all of us are teen agers with lightning skills. Being older, I need all the warning I can get.

And my last encounter was from a Martel who blind-fired them around a corner in my direction. I was boosting into that second cap hugging the island and neither of us knew the other was there. Those torps were there faster than my rudder could respond.

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Not all of us are teen agers with lightning skills. Being older, I need all the warning I can get.

And my last encounter was from a Martel who blind-fired them around a corner in my direction. I was boosting into that second cap hugging the island and neither of us knew the other was there. Those torps were there faster than my rudder could respond.

Never again.

I really wish I was a teenager again. But, alas, the 80's are far behind me. My warning is based on experience, not my old Atari-based reflexes.

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So now you tell me this after the free captain resets are over.... Hahahahahahahahahaha.. Gee thanks... not (lol)

Doesn't the free respec end tomorrow (5/5) morning?

All players that played at least one Clan Battle during the Season 2 will get a special bonus—a 100% discount for resetting Commander skills and demounting Upgrades. The discount will be available untilMay 5, 04:20 PT (07:20 ET).

All players that played at least one Clan Battle during the Season 2 will get a special bonus—a 100% discount for resetting Commander skills and demounting Upgrades. The discount will be available untilMay 5, 04:20 PT (07:20 ET).

All players that played at least one Clan Battle during the Season 2 will get a special bonus—a 100% discount for resetting Commander skills and demounting Upgrades. Th

Doesn't the free respec end tomorrow (5/5) morning?players that played at least one Clan Battle during the Season 2 will get a special bonus—a 100% discount for resetting Commander skills and demounting Upgrades. The discount will be available untilMay 5, 04:20 PT (07:20 ET).

All players that played at least one Clan Battle during the Season 2 will get a special bonus—a 100% discount for resetting Commander skills and demounting Upgrades. The discount will be available untilMay 5, 04:20 PT (07:20 ET).

All players that played at least one Clan Battle during the Season 2 will get a special bonus—a 100% discount for resetting Commander skills and demounting Upgrades. Th

e discount will be available untilMay 5, 04:20 PT

(07:20 ET).

That's a nope... Gone this morning. As usual, WG jumps the gun on these. If you didn't anticipate this 'USUAL' practice of theirs, it's going to hurt.

Last 'Free Reset', I had to endure my 19 point Montana captain set up for the Atlanta for a couple months.

Another example of this behavior was the Anniversary missions where you could only buy crates to finish them off.

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Inertia Fuse for High Explosive (IFHE) is a 4 point captain skill that increases the penetration of your HE rounds at the expense of your chance to start fires. You gain 30% penetration for a slight reduction (one percent in this case) in your chance to start a fire.

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In my Harekaze I meet a red Harekaze on the high seas and start pew pewing - this is going to hurt.

After I kill him, I still have close to full health and think his aim was really bad, but...

verses with IFHE

word...the guy obviously just bought the thing...for his anticipated triumphant sweep of Tier 8 Ranked...with a 6 skill captain. He'll be on the forum later to cry about how Harekaze needs a serious buffing